skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as fines are a drop in the ocean there's No Privacy. Having privacy -but thinking you do not- stops free thought and speech, so letting a lack of trust be the norm is basically the same as stifling free speech. An institution like the Court of Justice of the European Union could pay itself if it went after Big Business. The only conclusion I can draw is that no-one (or not enough) in power actually wants to stop leaks and give citizens both privacy and a feeling of trust. In other words, privacy policies are worthless without enforcement, which we don't have.
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Well neovim folks forked vim bacause they were not allowed to clean up the code and fix vimscript among other things IIRC.

It is very unfortunate that they could not find an agreement.
While ENTSO-E does have a map [1], it's not as nice as the one described above.

[1] https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/
Interesting article. The main thing is it’s not that fast and doesn’t play DRM content. But those are first world problems.

For me it’d be the storage. If the provided first class NVME or SATA storage I’d probably be ok with using one but any primary storage hanging off SD cards or USB I’m not going near after many bad experiences.
You have an advanced degree in EE, paid for by work who valued that enough to pay for it, and don't expect to be able to clear $50K in student loans in 10 years.

Are you still working in a job requiring that degree, because if so, that does seem like you're getting shafted (especially compared to the equivalent on the CS side of EE/CS).
Github recently backed up a lot of open source projects on hardened microfilm and stored it in the Artic. See https://archiveprogram.github.com/
Textual macro languages are evil. Use anything else if you have any choice in the matter.
I don't believe this is just a collection of videos.

To me - it rather looks like a purposeful bait and switch manipulation targeted at people who search for TV show trailers on YouTube with the intention to influence them (and as you said - "make them fearful of blacks").

As I mentioned - I've stumbled upon other channels doing the exact same thing following the same formula.

I don't think it's just racist people who happened to upload such videos.

Also, I kinda wonder - what other niches they may be doing this in? TV trailers may be only one of many such niches they target ...
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What do you think would be the chances of having an article 9 provision specifically mentioning 'sexual orientation' if everybody was straight?

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/
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Climate change in antiquity: Mass emigration due to water scarcity
When I click a play store link, it asks me which store to open it with. And I can set galaxy store as default.
It's incredible what one dedicated man can accomplish through the court system. Makes me wonder what the world would be like if we just spent a little time educating our children about their digital rights in school.
> they won't be used to the handling a van this heavy, you will try to come to a stop and discover you're missing a car length

200 pounds of clock in a seat, and 300 pounds of battery with a removed seat. That's on par with simply having two people sit in the middle row.
> The changes you mention like llvm, CTE de-mat and such: Were these for "free" or did you have to adapt your code?

The changes were made "for-free" as in no code needed to be changed, but when changing query planners caution should be heeded..

I remember a time where a mysql 5.6->5.7 upgrade crippled our entire monitoring stack:

https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=87164

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/121841/mysql-5-7-inn...
> I wonder what are the benefits of keeping the grid synchronous?

> Wide area synchronous networks improve reliability and permit the pooling of resources. Also, they can level out the load, which reduces the required generating capacity, allow more environmentally-friendly power to be employed; and allow more diverse power generation schemes and permit economies of scale. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid
So… you want channels like this one to continue spreading round the internet without anybody questioning their legitimacy?

I’m not sure what your actual point is here. “Here’s a practical example of a shady actor using bots to spread bad stuff over a big-tech platform while remaining low-level enough to fly under their radar” seems fairly on-brand to me.
Yeah, I noticed that some years ago. They don't have that offer anymore. Interestingly, looking at the article, the cutouts are in the exact style of that former realtime map.

But static. Not living. That was once there, and available to the general public. Personally, I view that as artificial scarcity of information, regarding energy politics. 'Smokescreening' so to speak.
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I call bullshit!

The bottle on top may be a water tramp, but it has to much water. I'd expect to see also some drops in the walls due to splash out and dew, but the walls of the bottle are too clean.

They never say it, but implicitly it looks like a fuel collection tank, it's too much. Also, this would produce mostly methane that is not a liquid in usual conditions, and it's not clear why it would be collected on the top.

And as a comment noted, after three days the leftover in the floor are not cleaned and they are still green. Also, the illumination of the three days is too even.

Three days is too few time.
Can you watch Crunchyroll on a Chromecast? They at least use ASS in the browser.
Well, The Vim's BDFL is not that benevolent after all, hence the neovim fork.
> The gdpr didn’t change much but made small companies like these more vulnerable and web browsing more unbearable. Data is still getting collected and big companies don’t care.

You do know that GDPR fines scale with revenue?
Are you suggesting it hits scaling boundaries earlier than that single-node postgres? The TPC-C benchmark suggests fairly strong scaling up to medium~high double digit node counts, and my understanding is that it's decently conflict prone and very much relying on distributed transactions.

Of course a distributed architecture costs efficiency, but as long as it still scales further (and after some point, cheaper) than single-node alternatives, the efficiency loss is tolerable.

You can affect partitioning, but forcing it requires the payed version.
A lawyer would know for sure
I can try to clear this up (full disclosure: I work on the MDN team at Mozilla).

Last year our team was downsized by a little below 50%. Most of the losses were in the writer's team. We only lost one engineer.

As a result, our writing output was considerably smaller. To mitigate this, we did two things:

1. Mozilla hired some contractors to help keep the continuous web platform documentation updates happening, so MDN does not become out of date.

2. Mozilla plus Google, Microsoft, Samsung, W3C, Coil, and other supporters worked together to create Open Web Docs, which provides funding to hire more full-time writing staff to help MDN content keep getting better.

Step 1 was really just getting MDN out of trouble, and back to stability. Step 2 is about letting us go further and start evolving MDN's content.

MDN is staying inside Mozilla; we still contribute a lot to MDN in terms of engineering, infrastructure, and writing costs. It is just that we now have OWD contributing to writing costs as well, to help safeguard the content.

This is a good thing — it allows all the interested orgs to get together and agree on future content directions for MDN together, rather than just working away on it in our own little pockets. And we'll be developing a shared process to follow to make sure that all work is going in the right direction.
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Google Sheets: scrolling update with option to find active cells and ranges
Ask HN: Has the lockdown exposed weaknesses in remote learning?
I read a lot of articles where teachers and parents both have complained that remote learning/teaching is not working. Also, remote learning has exposed digital divide even in developed countries.

Will remote learning be the future or will we see people preferring the old way of face-to-face in classroom teaching with simple classroom software tools just as an aid in teaching?
It is absolutely possible and exactly how connections between the different grids are done, e.g. between the power grids of North America or between the European grid and Russia.

HVDC of course has the disadvantage of extra conversion equipment. HV circuit breakers are also significantly more complex as an arc will form as long as current is flowing. With AC this happens at the zero automatically, nothing like this with DC.
I'm looking around at all my home "machinery," and I don't see anything essential that is computer controlled. I have an ordinary gas furnace heating it; a plain old gas stove for cooking; a refrigerator that's got a plain analog temperature control; a boring, mechanical toilet based on technology that's hundreds of years old; and simple, mechanical valves that control the flow of water through my pipes.

The things I see that are computer controlled are luxury items, at best: TV, camera equipment, security camera, microwave, blender, laptops, tablet, NAS server, air purifier. This does leave out my car, but I don't expect cars are going to be playing a big part in any realistic post-apocalyptic future, anyway.

Most of that stuff could also be replaced by lower tech versions without much loss of functionality: analog TV, film camera, mechanical blender. I think even the microwave could be replaced by a lower tech version of itself without much loss of functionality. You could even have an actual, wireless remote for the TV.

I would miss my DSLR, laptops, tablet, and air purifiers, but I'd gladly give them all up if it would actually be a meaningful thing to do. As it is, getting rid of all the DSLRs and laptops in the world isn't going to save us. Very few individuals in this world have any real power to do anything about the most likely collapse scenario (climate change), and most of those people have a vested interest in not doing anything to help (American energy company CEOs).

Edit: a word
My suspicion is that NTP (and GPS) have generally superseded the synchronous grid for timekeeping. It has for every application that I know of.

Simultaneously, I suspect some systems still do rely on grid time.
Yes, does not compare, unfortunately.
I heard about this from another recent HN thread https://www.mobiussync.com however I haven’t had a chance to try it yet so I can’t attest to its quality.
Hetzner is (one of) the largest German dedicated server providers.

They are DIN ISO/IEC 27001 certified: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/zertifizierung. Of course if you only store encrypted data you don't really need this auditing.
Totally agree. All dating apps should be held as critically personal information. I was genuinely just curious what the situation was like in Norway.
The company I work for provides Demand Response to the Irish grid operator.

In cases like this, our systems would detect the frequency deviation, and shut off loads within 100 milliseonds to reduce the demand on the grid. This helps in cases where demand is greater than supply.

The entire system is automated - the required time frames are so quick that you don't have time for humans to be involved. By the time we're aware that an event has occurred, we've already reduced demand on the grid.

Handling high frequency events where supply is greater than demand is tricker. Sites that have long running generation can be instructed to shut down their generation, but large-scale batteries are probably the best solution in these cases. They can be switched quickly to start charging (if they have spare capacity).

As you've identified, one potential issue is that you can end up over-responding to the event and move from a low frequency event to a high frequency event.

The way we do in in Ireland is that our response is proportional to the frequency nadir. Not everything is tripped off at the same time.

As other posters have noted, the actual frequency deviations that occurred are not that big. 49.7 Hz is not that low compared to normal grid frequency. In fact, some of our systems wouldn't even activate at this level. They would see it, but wouldn't trip off any loads.
I agree on the Cloud app infrastructure but again it's more or less the 'aesthetics/experience' of it that has made it so widespread.

From the way the UK has been handling basic aspects of IT such as the spreadsheet that ran out of rows and missed a lot of Covid tracking data, the basics are yet to be figured out.
Yes it is out of spite. I am up >200% in January, with all of my life savings, and I am willing to lose everything so that they bleed and they lose everything. I have nothing to lose because I am used to living with nothing. I have but my chains to lose.

The '08 crisis was in part for a similar reason. Some hedge funds shorted housing stocks and crashed everything. We were at the risk of losing our home, my mother working for the gov was unemployed, she went to the private sector and they squeezed the life out of her.

They bring nothing useful back and play god without permission.
I see huge amount of PR merged with VIM on daily basis send by other people.

I think that every open source project used by thousands of people should have person like Bram. Who will draw a line and separate low quality or effort PRs. Many hate it and call them dictators, but that's just taking care of your own project, and keeping it at the highest standard.
So I read the article, and in theory there should be no passport checks with other EU countries either because of Schengen, but apparently they have "temporary border controls" since 2015 in violation of the agreements.
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> The SPY puts weren't at the beginning of 2020.

That was just a rough estimation. I have been following them for the last few years and my point is that they don't always win. Before 2020 (where every stock market on earth started giving huge profits) they were mostly known for their losses. In fact the only WSB stock still worth buying is TSLA. Everything else is pumped, dumped and gone.
> I thought that this was allowed.

No, that's one of the big wins of GDPR. You cannot just force the users to sign away their rights.
They probably have experience of using e-commerce though.
I had the same opinion until I had to ship the app with shared libraries on different BSD versions and a few older Solarises, besides multiple Linux distributions. Even then, I wasn't sure it would work without problems.

libtool is ugly because it tries to solve an ugly problem. To support the above, my manual Makefile was uglier than libtool :)

These days, if I'd have to do that again, I'll pick libtool without overthinking.

People need to learn why some things are as such and should see outside of Ubuntu/Windows/macOS comfort.
TikTok patched an exploit that could've let attackers steal user phone numbers
I don't use WhatsApp (or Telegram) but I see it as a huge win that people are switching away from Facebook. Breaking the iron grip of FAANG is the first step needed to getting Average Jane to switch to something safe.

Default E2EE from Facebook is as trustworthy as using their VPN for privacy. "We don't share between WhatsApp and the rest of Facebook" reminds me of "I didn't have sexual relations with that woman".
There is a Norwegian connection there though. Grindr and Opera (browser) is owned by the same Chinese entrepreneur.

Opera is still headquartered in Norway. Don't know if that helps, but there may be interesting corporate associations there.
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My rule is that if it is reported in the news to the point at which it becomes mainstream and the new normal, that ship has sailed.

There's eSports (and eSports companies) and it's just getting started. Still very early and not too late to invest, participate, compete or create a startup around it.

I'd put my money on that.
> Intentionally taking these images out of context, and posting them like mugshots and calling them all insurrectionists?

The site doesn’t do that, and explicitly links the source video for each face.

> I hope any one of the many peaceful protesters captured in those images files a lawsuit for libel.

If they are the party that actually filmed it, they’d be better off suing for copyright violations (though a fair use defense may well exist), as this clearly isn’t even approximately libel.
And what happens if somebody breaks in and steals your NAS?
Make sure to buy the right stock, at the right time. And make sure to sell it at the top, also at the right time.

But in all seriousness, for the past 12 years, there has been no fundamentals. Why? Because the Fed juiced the market with Quantitative Easing. Thereby flooding the market with infinite money.

Literally, all you had to do was to buy and hold.
> There was no blackout _yet_, but it was very close.

Where do you get that from? None of the sources reported a close blackout, as far as I understood it there was a lot of emergency capacity left. We weren't even in the emergency frequency range, as the other commenter pointed out.

Even the linked article just states that those interventions got more often after shutting down coal+nuclear, but it's not critical, it _only_ costs money to compensate the operators: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redispatch_(Stromnetz)

It's probably much less money than all the nuclear subsidies.
Computers (or anything containing a proper computer) don't care about grid frequency for time keeping.

On the consumer side, your microwave, coffee machine and even bedside clock will.

Not sure on the industrial side.
Doesn't the same argument apply to the inaccurate claim that it's open source?
OT @ tempsy: I need to say thank you. I found WSB through a random comment of yours about Tesla/WSB in January 2020, read a lot about options, liquidated my portfolio in February, bought puts on SPX and DAX and made €400k after taxes in a few weeks.

It's kind of crazy that your random comment on HN lead me down this path. That's why I'm a reader of HN since 2008 or so – exposure to randomness ;)
> There are also passport checks when you fly to Norway from other EU countries.

This is incorrect. And the presence or absence of these checks is not a EU/EEA matter. The passport free movement is a matter of the Schengen agreement. This is why the UK had passport checks with most of continental Europe back when they were EU members (but not Schengen members).

Norway is a Schengen member, and an EEA member, but not an EU member.

This Venn diagram might help (note that it hasn't been updated for Brexit): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Supranat...
This is partially what happened in 2008. Hedgefunds overshorted the housing market and then everything went down.
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The key to prevent that is to make it something like the IoT label [1] that has been proposed for several years

That was more around security of the devices, but I would like to see a label that covered 4 parameters

1. Security

2. Repariblity

3. Openness / Cloud Dependency / etc

4. Privacy

[1]https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/05/27-iot-labels-consume...
Could you cite that? If you're comparing median to median, I find that very unlikely.

There are plenty of soft barriers to progress for gay men.
"Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good pass-word and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFI-NITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them."[0]

[0]https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thisworldofo...
Sure,

What I saw was this. The voter file was completely inaccurate. It was very common to go to a residence where voters:

a. had moved
b. had died
c. had multiple 12+ voters currently registered at one apartment address, none of whom live there.

From my perspective there are real issues with sending unsolicited mail in ballots to homes because the government does such a bad job managing the voter file. Often it is deliberately mismanaged because "purging" a file is a loaded political term. Who wants to be that guy who deletes voters?

Moreover, my role as a campaign staffer was to collect votes. Often, people would ask "what do I vote for?", and I would just point and tell them what to vote for. This is also common. It also feels unethical.

Based on this experience, I strongly support voting in person, with an ID.

Don't trust me. If you would like to see this for yourself, volunteer with a campaign (any party) and canvass an apartment building in a swing state.
It’s almost impressive what these people have created. Now, when I stumble across the rare “Reject All” button on one of those pop ups, I don’t know if they even really mean “all” or if it keeps the trackers under “legitimate interests” enabled because they’re... “legitimate”. So the only safe option ends up being disabling all of them manually, which is absurd when these websites list hundreds and hundreds of trackers.

It’s as if they used decades of HCI research precisely to make the user experience as horrible as possible. No wait, I’m sure they did exactly that.
> Everyone getting rich with crypto, with Game Stop, Tesla (and other option trades), with SPACS, in the tech industry, and so on.

Not everyone, you only hear about the successful people really. I'm sure a load of people have lost money on Game Stop by timing it wrong etc.

I view these people as basically having won the lottery, great for them, but I'm not about to start playing the lottery.
And previous discussion [3] here on HN from the complaint filed last year.

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22043209
I would love to be able to do that on iOS.
At this point it's more of a curiosity than something most people are aware of. It was the starting point of a realisation that choking off just a handful of trade routes could starve the country.

Today the main reminder is that Norwegian school children still tend to learn the epic poem "Terje Vigen" by Ibsen, about a man who braves the blockade to feed his family and is captured - coupled with food security being a talking point in other subjects. It's not pushed very hard, and many probably at this point don't even make the connection.

The main modern justification is WW2, where the subject of food security gets reinforced with stories of bread made with bark etc., and post-war rationing.

Couple that with the constant fear of the Soviet Union (to the point that when growing up, we had regular air raid siren tests - today they're so rare the newspapers write articles to explain what they are) only reducing to unease about Russia, and food security is still a political topic.
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From my understanding they forked it over disagreement for terminal implementation in VIM based on bunch of unfinished code. Which Bram didn’t wanted to add until it’s properly implemented.
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